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harumph

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8. I cannot recommend your comment enough.

Reply to jaxexpat (Reply #7)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:26 AM

Nov 21

It's "performative justice" - not proper justice. It only serves to shove events like this down the public's memory hole - because, you know, it's been adjudicated. It's like a substitutive ritual of some kind that we as a culture indulge.

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